The vaccine-preventable disease, tetanus, has been considered eradicated among children in the Central European country of Slovenia for the past twenty years, health officials report a case in a unvaccinated...

The Louisiana Department of Health is saying that flood victims returning home for clean-up and recovery workers should ensure they are up-to-date on their tetanus vaccinations. Health officials are providing...

Some interesting vaccine research has been published recently, and on Sunday’s airing of the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show, two of those researchers joined me to talk about their work. During...

On April 27, 2015, the Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) recorded a case of tetanus affecting a 74-year-old woman with chronic illnesses. She presented with locked jaw, dysarthria and dysphagia...

An innovative approach using a tetanus booster to prime the immune system enhances the effect of a vaccine therapy for lethal brain tumors, dramatically improving patient survival, according to a study...

Just days after a joint committee in Kenya said the mass vaccination of tetanus is a safe program and should go on, the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) released a lengthy statement that concluded...